“Bus stop balancing is a low cost and easy way to speed up transit service along more transit-friendly, walkable downtown corridors, such as Main Street,” Vanessa Rauschenberger, the Oxnard-based district's director of planning and marketing, said Thursday.

“I think the key thing was spacing the stops out so that they're a little bit more consistent how far apart they are. In some cases, we had stops a block apart.”

Gold Coast Transit General Manager Steve Brown

"I think the key thing was spacing the stops out so that they're a little bit more consistent how far apart they are," Gold Coast General Manager Steve Brown said. "Speeds up the bus, makes it a little bit quicker. In some cases, we had stops a block apart."

Added Rauschenberger: "Some of the stops were within 300 feet of each other."